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...president of the American Musicological Society. Dr. Smith once studied the flute at the Paris Conservatoire, decided professional flute playing was too uncertain a job, though he had worked his way through Harvard by fluting at weddings, in theatres. Since 1931 Dr. Smith has headed the New York Public Library's music division, a clearing house for musical information used yearly by 50,000 people, from schoolgirls to Cecil B. DeMille...
...Communications Act of 1934 and by international agreement it is illegal, without proper authorization: 1) to intercept radio communications not intended for the general use of the public, and 2) to discuss them in print, on the air, or any other way. In the last few weeks the air has fairly crackled with important, and usually coded, admiralty radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also...
...sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music, Inc.: to "uncover a wealth of new talent in the U. S. . . . and bring to the American public an abundance of enjoyable new music." It is more important as a threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug...
Most startling chapter in Dr. Butler's autobiography is "On Keeping Out of Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom...
...good old-fashioned education" hi Paterson public schools (one of his masters used to beat his hand with a strap until blood ran). Says Dr. Butler: "The present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...